What does ice powder taste like? How many types of ice powder seeds are there?

Ice jelly is a popular delicacy in Chengdu, my country. It is crystal clear and smooth in taste. It is sold in the streets and alleys. It is very suitable for eating in the hot summer. It tastes like jelly, cool and slippery. Do you like it?

Contents of this article

1. What does ice jelly taste like?

2. How many kinds of ice powder seeds are there?

3. Will ice jelly melt at room temperature?

What does ice powder taste like?

The taste of ice jelly depends on the seasonings added. Ice jelly itself has no taste and tastes like jelly, cool and slippery. If no seasoning is added, ice jelly is a colorless and tasteless food.

Ice jelly, also known as Liangfen in some areas, originated in Pengshan (Wuyang), Sichuan, and has been popular in Sichuan and Chongqing, as a traditional local summer snack. It is cool, sweet, tender, smooth and refreshing, and can help to relieve heat and reduce internal heat.

There are several types of ice powder seeds

1. Tree ice powder seeds: Ice powder tree, scientific name Pearl Lotus, commonly known as ice powder tree.

Properties: The stems and branches of this product are cylindrical, 3-4cm long and 0.2-1cm in diameter; the surface is reddish brown or grayish brown, with fine longitudinal lines and many small raised brown lenticels, and some young branches have brown hairs; the texture is hard, the cross section is irregular, the cortex is reddish brown, and the wood is lighter in color. The leaves are mostly curled and have short petioles; the leaves are ovate or elliptical when flattened, 3-8cm long and 2-5cm wide; the surface is yellowish brown, the young leaves are covered with fine hairs, the tip is obtuse, the base is round or wide cuneate, and the margins are entire; leathery. Odorless, astringent.

2. Herbal ice powder seeds: Physalis alkekengi.

Annual herb, 50-80 cm high. The taproot is long-conical with slender fibrous roots. The stem is ribbed cylindrical with 4-5 longitudinal grooves, green, sometimes purple, and trifurcated branches at the top. The leaves are alternate, herbaceous, 4-15 cm long with petiole, 1.5-7.5 cm wide, gradually pointed at the tip, broadly cuneate at the base, with irregular serrations and corrugated edges, 4-5 pairs of lateral veins, concave above and convex below.

Will ice powder melt at room temperature?

Ice jelly will turn into water if left for a long time, because the handmade ice jelly sold on the market is made of pectin extracted from naturally grown plant seeds. It will slowly melt into water if left for a long time at room temperature, so you must eat it in time after buying it. Note that if the ice jelly turns into water in a short period of time, it is mostly because too much coagulant has been added, and the taste will also become hard.

Ice jelly is a popular delicacy in Chengdu, my country. It is crystal clear in appearance and smooth in taste. It is sold in the streets and alleys and is very suitable for eating in the hot summer. However, if we do not eat the ice jelly in time after buying it, we will find that it will turn into water after a period of time.

The reason why ice jelly will turn into water after being left for a long time is that handmade ice jelly is made of gelatin solidified from naturally grown plant fruit seeds. It will slowly melt if stored for a long time at room temperature. However, if the ice jelly turns into water in a short period of time, it is mostly because there is too much coagulant.

If there is too much coagulant, the ice jelly will solidify before the coagulant has time to be mixed evenly, so it will quickly turn into water. The ice jelly made in this way will be yellowish in color, and taste bad, and will be hard to eat. Therefore, it is best to control the proportion of coagulant when making it.